American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

Overview

ANERA is the leading American NGO focused on providing humanitarian aid to the Middle East. Since 1968, ANERA has been a leader in creating innovative job, health and education opportunities in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan and Lebanon and providing emergency relief during periods of difficulty.

Mission

ANERA creates opportunity and hope for people in the Middle East by improving health care and education, and stimulating job creation.

Program

Health and Relief: For nearly four decades, ANERA has delivered emergency relief and medical supplies to communities in the Middle East. Today, ANERA continues its legacy of assisting local health care providers deliver quality services to their communities.

Education: From kindergarten to university work, ANERA opens doors for children, women and men in the Middle East to discover opportunities for learning. Through innovative projects that build new schools, offer after-school programs, train preschool teachers and principles, teach information technology, support music education and help disadvantatged children to go to school, ANERA helps people reach their potential.

Community and Economic Development: ANERA finds ways to help men and woemn in the Middle East presevere through difficult economic times. ANERA creates jobs that rebuild infrastructure such as schools, health clinics and water wells. It offers job training programs to help people become entreprenuers with access to small business loans and job opportunities.

Impact

With programs in health and relief, education and community and economic development, people in the Middle East are becoming more self-sufficient and supporting their families and communities.

ANERA delivers immediate and concrete results by virtue of its decades of experience in the region and highly trained staff in Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan. Every project is planned in consultation with the communities that ultimately benefit--an approach that ensures relevancy and commitment, and secures the long-term viability of the projects.